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The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India Joseph S. Alter
The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
Joseph S. Alter
Tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. Using the insights of anthropology, this title presents ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.
332 pages, 15 b&w photographs, 2 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 3, 1992 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520076976 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 332 |
| Dimensions | 245 × 192 × 26 mm · 654 g |
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